Simon and Garfunkel
Bridge Over Troubled Water: 50 Years On
Half a century on, the song remains an an eternally affecting evocation of the need for solidarity and comfort
A night of spectacle and special effects
Stranger Things: The First Shadow designers aren’t afraid to raid the treasure trove
Mirabel Chevenix
Grande dame
Wragg must go
He should resign or be fired
When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
In praise of the viola
Cantabile: Anthems for viola (Delphian)
The Roman Republic is worth thinking about
The life and death of Tiberius Gracchus illustrate the virtues of populism
Ukraine cannot avoid partition
Ukraine must not capitulate and demilitarise, but de-facto partition is now an inevitability
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
The sculptor’s funeral
The death of Imogen Stuart represents the passing of an Ireland that built, rather than destroyed
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
